Raymond Burr credited as playing...
Perry Mason
- Perry Mason: I almost wish I'd specialized in something a little less strenuous than criminal law.
- Della Street: [laughs] You know you don't mean that.
- Perry Mason: No, but I do wish we didn't have to finish that brief tonight.
- Della Street: I was hoping you'd forgotten.
- Perry Mason: And if I had?
- Della Street: Like a good, dutiful secretary, I would have reminded you... maybe.
- Lenora Graves: Mr. Baker has always been so nice to me. And I, I just couldn't bear to see him lose his inheritance.
- Perry Mason: But how did you think changing the record would affect that?
- Lenora Graves: Then it would make her baby, if she had one, which I doubt, illegitimate.
- Perry Mason: Ms. Graves, the law expressly states than any issue of marriage, even though it be later annulled, is legitimate. So you see, it really made no difference when Lawrence Carrick died.
- [first lines]
- Perry Mason: Why the sigh? I thought the dinner was excellent.
- Della Street: It isn't the dinner. I'm merely letting out my breath.
- Perry Mason: Your breath?
- Della Street: I've been holding it ever since we sat down. Do you realize that this is the first meal we've had in weeks that hasn't been interrupted by a frantic phone call from someone... the office or a worried client?